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All posts in April 2018

April Nineteenth Two Thousand Eleven

April Nineteenth Two Thousand Eleven

Posted on April 19, 2018December 23, 2021Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle, Top Posts9 Replies

When I first came to, it was as though I was floating up to the surface of a pool. I felt weightless, slowly being pulled up into the world of the living from the soundless depths of water. I wanted to go back.  It was so peaceful down there. So dark and peaceful.  Here… Here was…

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Behind the “Picture-Perfect”

Behind the “Picture-Perfect”

Posted on April 11, 2018July 22, 2020Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle5 Replies

My tongue is swollen, and I have the constant malaise of a tongue too big for the month. I keep on biting it around the edges, and it’s difficult to speak.  It’s a side effect of the chemo pills I take for Rheumatoid Arthritis – the Methotrexate. I take folic acid pills for this issue,…

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Hiroko Nishimura

Hiroko Nishimura is an AWS Community Hero, technical instructor at LinkedIn Learning, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers.

She writes about her jarring transition to motherhood on Substack. Many posts are reposted on this blog as well under Tag: Substack. Looking for my Japanese posts?

She is a brain injury and brain surgery survivor, writing about dealing with adult Executive Dysfunction/ADHD.

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